Animated device



Nov.'25, 1930. A. WEINS'fEIN 82 ANIMATED DEVICE Filed April 25, 1929 IN V EN TOR.

v ATTORNEYS.

Patented Nov. 25, 1930 unrrsn ALFRED WEINSTEIN, or

irArr nn-e, GERMANY ANIMATED DEVICE Application filedn rn 23, i

15 tures in view, the invention comprises various novel'features of construction and arrangementsof parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is an elevation of an animated device I Figure '2 is a vertical section thereof, line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figures 3, 4, and. 5 are details of the propeller and the propeller mounting. I

Referring to Figures 1 and f the draw ings, a front plate or card 10 depicts a scene having a displaceable element therein.

The plate has an opening 11 in the region of the displaceable element, a second plate 12 being aflixed contiguous to the plate 10, by means of glue or the like,and bearing a complemental representation to the scene depicted on plate 10 on that portion adjacent the opening 11. Mounted in saidopening is a transparent cup or the like 13, preferably of celluloid, a, flange 14 being secured between the two plates. Within the cup 13 is adisplaceablejelement, in the present disclosure a propeller or rotor 15 is shown, preferably as having a plurality of blades 16, attached to a bearing element 17, a flange 18 thereon serving tov maintain the upright position of the" propeller or rotor.

The bearing elementl'T is rotatably mounted on a shaft 19, having a basemembe'r 20, the shaft 19 extending through the plate 12, and the base 20 being affixed to the plate 12 by glue or other means. As will benotedfrom 1929. Serial No. 357,509. I

Figure 2,the bearing element 17 andithe propeller mounted thereon, are free to rotate on the shaft 19, the bearing element also functioning as a spacer to preventdisplacement from the shaft. I

A third plate or cardr21: aflizred to the "other plates. preferably at the edges thereof,

and isnormally held spaced from said other plates at its middle portion bya spring 22 so as, to obtain a bellows action when the plates are pressed toward each ,Other, An

air directing nozzle23, orthe like is formed in plate 12 adjacent the propeller 15, so positioned as to cause the air current generated by the bellows action of said plates to impinge against the arms of therotor at a point to one side of its center to operate the same at a liigh velocity if desired and an opening 24 is provided in the side of cup 13, to permit flow of air. y V

The operation of the improved device is as follows: A manual displacing of the plate 21 toward the other plates, against the force of the spring 22, causes a flow of air through the nozzle opening 23 to 1mp1nge on the butit is found that this action of the air from the bellows will operate the rotor even though this opening 24 is closed.

The advantageous features of the device changes may bemade as are within the scope the appended claims.

1. In an animated device, a plate bearing a representation thereon, apivot pinifixed on said plate, a member rotatably mounted on 7.5 blades 16, to one side of its center the air thenp assing out through opening 24. As the plate 21 is allowed to move back, the air flows back, so thatan additional displacement of plate 21causes a further rotation of the rotor said pin and having vanes, a nozzle opening 7 p in said plate adjacent said vanes, a transparent cup secured to said plate and covering said member and the nozrwie and having an opening, and means for forcing air through said nozzle opening to impact on said vanes.

2. In an animated device, a plate bearing a representation thereon, a pivot pin fixed on said plate, a member rotatably mounted on said pin and having vanes, a nozzle opening in said plate adjacent said vanes, a transparent cup secured to said plate and covering said member and the nozzle and having an opening, a second plate secured at its edges to the first plate at the rear thereof, and a resilient member normally displacing said second plate from said first plate.

3. In an animated device, a plate bearing a representation thereon, an opening therein, a second plate secured to said plate and hearing a complemental representation adjacent said opening, a pivot pin fixed on said sec ond plate Within said opening, a member having vanes rotatably mounted on said pivot pin, a nozzle opening in said second plate adjacent said vanes, a transparent cup secured to said second plate and covering said member and the nozzle and having an opening, a third plate positioned in rear of said second plate and secured to said first plate at the edges thereof, and a spring normally displacing said third plate from said first and second plates.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALFRED IVEINSTEIN. 

